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Malaun (Template:Lang-bn) is a derogatory term for a Bengali Hindu, most commonly used in Bangladesh. The word is derived from the Arabic "ملعون", meaning 'accursed' or 'deprived of God's Mercy', and in modern times, it is used as an ethnic slur by the Muslims in Bengal for Hindus.

Nirmal Kumar Bose noted the usage of the term as early as 1946 in Noakhali. During the 1971 Bengali Hindu genocide, the Pakistani officers addressed Dr. Govinda Chandra Dev as malaun before executing him. On 13 April 1971, after killing a Hindu, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury made a sarcastic comment to the mourning Muslims, "It's only a malaun that died."

References

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• Ethnic and religious slurs
• Anti-Hinduism
• Persecution of Hindus